Teflis
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Teflis
- Obsolete spelling of Tiflis.
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 292:
- The Georgians (girt in with two mightie aduerſaries, the Perſian, and the Turke) haue endured mcuh grieuance from them both: and, in the late warres, eſpecially from the Turke, who hath taken and fortified many of their principall places of importance, Gori, Cliſca, Lori, Tomanis, Teflis, the chiefe citie of Georgia, vnto which from Derbent there yet remaine the foundation of a high and thicke wall built by Alexander.